In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce a world which can be ordered, systematized, and subjected to their powers. It is a penetrating and sensitive analysis of how social workers in their everyday practice make sense from a confusing collection of case details to create organizationally defined problems and cases.
De Montigny...
In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an institutiona...
